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  <!ENTITY tl-installer-download-http   "http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz">

  <!ENTITY tl-installer-download-ftp    " ">
  <!ENTITY tl-installer-md5sum          "f5b1e909d5c2380cefd2cda83d288c00">
  <!ENTITY tl-installer-date             "20140628"> <!-- in the directory name -->
  <!ENTITY tl-installer-size            "3.2 MB">

  <!ENTITY tl-installer-buildsize        "3.8 GB">
  <!ENTITY tl-installer-time            "varies, depending on network speed and traffic">
]>

<sect1 id="tl-installer" xreflabel="install-tl-unx">
  <?dbhtml filename="tl-installer.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>install-tl-unx</title>

  <indexterm zone="tl-installer">
    <primary sortas="a-install-tl-unx">install-tl-unx</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to TeX Live and its installer</title>

    <para>The <application>TeX Live</application> package is a comprehensive
    TeX document production system.  It includes TeX, LaTeX2e, ConTeXt,
    Metafont, MetaPost, BibTeX and many other programs; an extensive collection
    of macros, fonts and documentation; and support for typesetting in many
    different scripts from around the world.</para>

    <para>It is necessary to use a binary installer for the first install.
    This will provide the programs, the scripts, and a lot of supporting files
    and documentation.  After that, you can rebuild most of the programs from source
    by following the instructions for <xref linkend="texlive"/>.  The installer
    is updated frequently, so its md5sum will change if it is newer than what
    is shown below.  Newer versions of the installer are expected to work with
    these instructions, for so long as they install to a
    <filename class="directory">&texlive-year;/</filename> directory.</para>

    &lfs76_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&tl-installer-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&tl-installer-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &tl-installer-md5sum; (at &tl-installer-date;)</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &tl-installer-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &tl-installer-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &tl-installer-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended (at runtime)</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      The binaries are mostly linked to static libraries such as
      <filename class="libraryfile">libc.a</filename>, but a few of the programs
      and several scripts will fail if the following packages are not present.
    </para>
    <para>
      <xref linkend="gs"/> is dynamically loaded by dvisvgm, which is used by
     <application>asy</application>.
    </para>
    <para>
      <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/> and
      <xref linkend="libxcb"/> are needed for inimf, mf, pdfclose, pdfopen and
      xdvixaw. But if you are using asy, or using <application>TeX</application>
      to create a PDF file, you will need an <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>
      (for PDF files, this is to support a PDF viewer of your choice, for example
       <xref linkend="epdfview"/>).
    </para>
    <para>
      the optional non-wide-character ncurses library (for "some binary-only
      application") from the bottom of the <application>Ncurses</application>
      page in LFS is needed for xindy.run which is used by
      <application>xindy</application>
    </para>
    <para>
      If you are building on 32-bit x86, the binary version of asy needs <ulink
      url="http://www.fftw.org/">FFTW</ulink>, <xref linkend="glu"/> and <ulink
      url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2.tar.gz">libreadline-5.2</ulink>
      : this only requires <filename>libreadline.so.5.2</filename> which can be
      manually copied from the <filename class="directory">shm/</filename>
      directory after running <command>configure</command> and <command>make</command>
      and then symlinked as <filename>libreadline.so.5</filename>.
    </para>
    <para>
      <xref linkend="python2"/> is used by many scripts.
    </para>
    <para>
      <xref linkend="ruby"/> is used by some scripts, mostly within mtx_context
      which is part of <application>conTeXt</application>.
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/tl-installer"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Binary Installation of TeX Live</title>

    <para>The <application>TeX Live</application> set of programs with its
    supporting documents, fonts, and utilities is very large.  The upstream
    maintainers recommend placing all files in a single directory structure.
    BLFS recommends <filename class='directory'>/opt/texlive</filename>.</para>

    <para>First, unpack the installer and change into the installer's
    directory, <filename class='directory'>install-tl-&lt;CCYYMMDD&gt;</filename>.
    This directory name changes when the installer is updated, so replace
    &lt;CCYYMMDD&gt; by the correct directory name.</para>

<screen><userinput>tar -xf install-tl-unx.tar.gz &amp;&amp;
cd install-tl-&lt;CCYYMMDD&gt; </userinput></screen>

    <note><para>The distribution binaries installed below use static linking
    for general linux system libraries.  Additional libraries or interpreters
    as specified in the dependencies section do not need to be present during
    the install, but the programs that need them will not run until their
    specific dependencies have been installed.</para></note>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
    user:</para>

<screen><userinput role="root">TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/texlive ./install-tl</userinput></screen>

    <para>This command is interactive and allows selection or modification of
    platform, packages, directories, and other options.  The full installation
    scheme will require about 3.8 gigabytes of disk space.  The time to complete
    the download will depend on your internet connection speed and the
    number of packages selected.</para>

    <para>After the package download is complete, the next step is to make sure
    that the system can properly find the files.  If you set up your login
    scripts as recommended in <xref linkend='postlfs-config-profile'/>, update
    the needed paths by appending to the
    <filename>extrapaths.sh</filename> script. The programs are always
    installed in an &lt;ARCH&gt;-linux subdirectory.
    <emphasis>Always</emphasis> replace &lt;ARCH&gt; by x86_64, for 64bit,
    or by i386, for 32bit, respectively, depending on the architecture that
    you are using in your actual installation location.</para>

<screen><userinput role="root">cat &gt;&gt; /etc/profile.d/extrapaths.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
pathappend /usr/share/man                        MANPATH
pathappend /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/man  MANPATH
pathappend /usr/share/info                       INFOPATH
pathappend /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/info INFOPATH
pathappend /opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/bin/&lt;ARCH&gt;-linux
EOF</userinput></screen>

    <note><para>The standard MANPATH and INFOPATH path are specified above to
    ensure they are included.  If they are already set in the boot script
    procedure, the pathappend function will ensure duplicates are
    removed, so including them here will do no harm.</para></note>

    <para>The new paths can be immediately activated by running <command>source
    /etc/profile</command>.</para>

    <para>At this point the binary installation is complete.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <option>./install-tl --location
      http://mirror.aut.ac.nz/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/</option>: use a
      variation of this if you wish to use a different mirror, e.g. because
      you are in New Zealand but the installer chooses to use an Australian
      mirror. The list of mirrors is at http://ctan.org/mirrors.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>Over 300 binaries and symlinks to scripts</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>/opt/texlive</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="tl-installer-programs">
        <term><command>TeX&nbsp;programs</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
          href="../../xincludes/texprogs.xml"/>
          <indexterm zone="tl-installer tl-installer-programs">
            <primary sortas="b-tl-installer-programs">TeX Live programs</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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